Lajpat Nagar metro station

Lajpat Nagar is an interchange station between Violet Line and Pink Line of the Delhi Metro in Delhi. It is located between Jangpura and Moolchand on the Violet Line in Lajpat Nagar. The station was opened with the first section of the Violet Line on 3 October 2010, in time for the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony on the same day. It became an interchange station with the opening of the Pink Line on 6 August 2018. The station on the Pink Line is underground, whereas the Violet line station is elevated. However, both the lines are seamlessly connected, without commuters having to exit the ticketed area to interchange from one line to another.

Lajpat Nagar
Delhi Metro station
Lajpat Nagar metro station Platform
General information
Location	Lala Lajpat Rai Marg, New Delhi 110024, India
Coordinates	28°34′14.0369″N 77°14′11.2571″E
Owned by	Delhi Metro
Operated by	Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)
Line(s)	Violet Line Pink Line
Platforms	Side platform Platform-1 → Raja Nahar Singh Platform-2 → Kashmere Gate Island Platform Platform-3 → Shiv Vihar Platform-4 → Majlis Park
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Elevated, Underground
Platform levels	2
Parking	Available
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	LJPN
History
Opened	Violet Line- October 3, 2010 (2010-10-03) Pink Line- August 6, 2018 (2018-08-06)
Electrified	25 kV 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Passengers
October 2019 65,330 October 2023 78,218  19.73%
Services
Preceding station Delhi Metro Following station Jangpura towards Kashmere Gate Violet Line Moolchand towards Raja Nahar Singh South Extension towards Majlis Park Pink Line Vinobapuri towards Shiv Vihar
Route map Kashmere Gate Red Line Yellow Line Lal Qila Jama Masjid Delhi Gate ITO Mandi House Blue Line Janpath Central Secretariat Yellow Line Khan Market Lodi Road Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Ring Railway Jangpura Lajpat Nagar Pink Line Ring Road Moolchand Kailash Colony Nehru Place Kalkaji Mandir Magenta Line Outer Ring Road Govindpuri Harkesh Nagar Okhla Indian Railways Jasola Apollo Sarita Vihar Mohan Estate Tughlakabad Golden Line Badarpur Border Delhi Haryana border Sarai NH 19 / Mathura Road NHPC Chowk Mewla Maharajpur Sector 28 Badkhal Mor Old Faridabad Neelam Chowk Ajronda Bata Chowk Escorts Mujesar Sant Surdas (Sihi) NH 19 / Mathura Road Raja Nahar Singh under construction Maujpur - Babarpur Yamuna Vihar Bhajanpura Khajuri Khas Sonia Vihar Yamuna River Soorghat Jagatpur Village Jharoda Majra Burari Outer Ring Road Mukundpur Depot Majlis Park Ring Road Azadpur Yellow Line Shalimar Bagh Netaji Subhash Place Red Line Shakurpur Rohtak Road Punjabi Bagh West Green Line ESI - Basaidarapur Rajouri Garden Blue Line Najafgarh Road Mayapuri Naraina Vihar Delhi Cantonment Delhi–Gurgaon Expressway Dhaula Kuan Airport Express Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah Moti Bagh Bhikaji Cama Place Sarojini Nagar Dilli Haat - INA Yellow Line South Extension Lajpat Nagar Violet Line Vinobapuri Ashram Sarai Kale Khan - Nizamuddin Ring Road Yamuna River Mayur Vihar-I Blue Line Mayur Vihar Pocket I Trilokpuri Sanjay Lake East Vinod Nagar - Mayur Vihar-II Mandawali - West Vinod Nagar IP Extension Anand Vihar Blue Line Karkarduma Blue Line Karkarduma Court Krishna Nagar East Azad Nagar Welcome Red Line Grand Trunk Road Jaffrabad Maujpur - Babarpur Pink Line Gokulpuri Delhi Uttar Pradesh border Johri Enclave Shiv Vihar
Location

Lajpat Nagar Market is one of the famous shopping market in Delhi which is famous for women's clothes, artificial jewelry, Footwear, household electronics and Home Decor items. This market is walking distance from Lajpat Nagar metro station and rickshaws can be hired easily for traveling back and forth. Timings of this market is 11:00 AM to 08:00 PM

The station

Facilities

HDFC Bank, SBI, RBL Bank ATMs,food court are available at Lajpat Nagar metro station.

Station layout

L2	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
	Platform 1 Southbound	Towards → Raja Nahar Singh next station is Moolchand
	Platform 2 Northbound	Towards ← Kashmere Gate next station is Jangpura
	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
L1	Concourse	Fare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossover
G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
UG Level-1	Concourse	Fare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossover
UG Level-2	Platform 3 Southbound	Towards → Shiv Vihar next station is Vinobapuri
	Island platform | Doors will open on the left
	Platform 4 Northbound	Towards ← Majlis Park next station is South Extension

Nearby

Lajpat Nagar Central Market, Amar Colony, Defence Colony, Acharya Munir Ashram, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing, Haldiram's, The Japan Foundation, Guru Nanak Market, Ziyyara Edutech Private Limited, RPVV Lajpat Nagar, GCoSSS lajpat nagar.

See also

• Delhi
• List of Delhi Metro stations
• Transport in Delhi
• Delhi Monorail
• South Delhi
• New Delhi
• National Capital Region (India)
• List of rapid transit systems
• List of metro systems

External links

• Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (Official site)
• Delhi Metro Annual Reports
• "Station Information". Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (DMRC). Archived from the original on 19 June 2010.
• UrbanRail.Net – Descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
• Google. "Lajpat Nagar metro station" (Map). Google Maps. Google.